Developmental Regionalism and the Political Economy of Africa's Integration

Gabila Nubong's book explores opportunities to transform Africa's economies through regional corporation and integration, focusing on unbundled global production value chains to industrialize and diversify. It proposes a model of 'Developmental Regionalism' to move African countries up global production value chains and achieve development objectives.

Format: Hardback
Length: 142 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Gabila Nubong's book "Development Regionalism and the Political Economy of Africa's Integration" explores the opportunities to transform the continent and its structural nature of economies. Nubong revisits earlier debates on Africa's industrialization and explores avenues of leveraging current opportunities to industrialize by focusing on integrating unbundled global production value chains. The book proposes that Africa should shift its development paradigm to pursue a model of regional corporation that combines integration and development objectives together, coined as "Developmental Regionalism." This approach would move African countries up global production value chains with the transformation of their minerals and the diversification of their economies through avenues of industrialization that unbundle production processes and increase servicification of manufacturing. Nubong argues that with breaking away from the proverbial resource curse and taking advantage of its demographic dividend and growing economies, Africa can chart a different future for itself within a developmental regionalism paradigm.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793617392